University of Reading: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)·Companies House: Private Limited Company·Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South East England·Reading
Official UK PPONPZZN-4928-CWMD
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
27 awarded tenders, 119 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education Recruitment Advertising and Resourcing Services | 19 Feb 2027 | 113d | £80,000,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 53% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems5 procedures · 33%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 27%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 27%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 20%22 Printed matter and related products2 procedures · 13%30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 13%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 13%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 15 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Framework87%(13 notices)
13 of 15 notices are Framework (87%).Contract13%(2 notices)
2 of 15 notices are Contract (13%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Route not published73%(11 notices)
11 of 15 notices are Route not published (73%).Open13%(2 notices)
2 of 15 notices are Open (13%).Selective13%(2 notices)
2 of 15 notices are Selective (13%).
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 15 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| XMA Limited | 6 | 22.2% | 0 | 8 | — |
| Softcat Plc | 6 | 22.2% | 0 | 6 | — |
| CDW Limited | 6 | 22.2% | 0 | 6 | — |
| Insight Direct | 5 | 18.5% | 0 | 5 | — |
| EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC | 4 | 14.8% | 0 | 14 | — |
| Otto Harrassowitz GmbH & Co. KG | 4 | 14.8% | 0 | 4 | — |
| Proquest LLC | 3 | 11.1% | 0 | 10 | — |
| BibliU Ltd | 3 | 11.1% | 0 | 9 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 22% of 27 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 119 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
88 of 106 contracts carry an end date, 81 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 76 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| A system for non-invasive preclinical ultrasound imagingInstruments for checking physical characteristics | Awarded / complete | 12 Oct 2022 | — |
| NSS SupportResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 5 Oct 2022 | £250,000 |
| Centri GCxGC-TOF-MS systemDetection and analysis apparatus | Awarded / complete | 28 Sept 2022 | — |
| HRMS - HR Management SystemIndustry specific software package | Open | 22 Aug 2022 | — |
| HR Management SystemIndustry specific software development services | Cancelled | 19 Aug 2022 | — |
| Education Recruitment Advertising and Resourcing Services (National) and Educational Media Buying and Associated Services (NERARS)Advertising and marketing services | Open | 8 Aug 2022 | £100,000,000 |
| Banking ServicesBanking and investment services | Awarded / complete | 20 Jul 2022 | £675,000 |
| Digital Dining SystemIndustry specific software package | Cancelled | 18 Jul 2022 | — |
| Servers Storage Solutions National AgreementComputer servers | Not published | 23 Jun 2022 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 88 of 106 published contracts have an end date; 81 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.